Jay Travis. We have only begun this fight.
NEWS RELEASE Jay Travis, Democratic Candidate for IL State Representative CHICAGO, IL – Award-winning community organizer Jhatayn “Jay” Travis today conceded in her competitive race against incumbent State Representative Christian Mitchell in the Democratic primary for the Illinois 26th District. Jay came within a close margin of victory and had not yet conceded in order to follow up on the hundr
Latest update on Illinois Charter Bills.
- Mary Shesgreen Dear Friends, I just spoke with Kurt Hildgendorf at Chicago Teachers Union. He gave me this update. HB 6005, the Charter School Accountability Act, passed out of the House Education Committee and will be come up in the full house next week or the week afterwards. We don’ t know the date yet. It stands a good chance in the House. It’s companion bill in the Senate, SB 3030 passed ou
Sun-Times report of teachers being “within hours” of a pension deal is false.
Sun-Times reporter Fran Spielman reported this morning that two unions were close to a pension deal with the City. Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration is closing in on a pension deal with unions representing building trades and white-collar employees that could strengthen his hand with police and fire, City Hall sources said Thursday. Neither the city nor the unions whose members draw their retire
Springfield goes home until April Fool’s Day.
Our Miss Brooks. John Stewart famously called state government the meth lab of democracy. Yesterday the Illinois General Assembly acted more like my old high school pal who spent our senior year and most of his freshman year at UC Berkeley stoned and on the couch watching day-time reruns of Our Miss Brooks. This was less about class warfare than it was about cutting class. It’s early in the morn
3-27-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Revenue, revenue, revenue. And tax fairness.Bruce Rauner’s budget address. Illinois’ financial problem is rooted in a lack of sufficient revenue and tax fairness. Quinn’s budget address yesterday starts to acknowledge what we have said. He was right to call for keeping the 5% income tax place. Illino